Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

The basic tree of life with gene exchanges during the earliest evolution, as envisioned by the microbiologist W. Ford Doolittle. Modified from the original drawing in “Phylogenetic classification and the ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:BEN RYDER HOWE [Howe, Ben Ryder]

A WEEK OR so after the sauce delivery, Mother Nature decides that having inflicted one of her coldest winters ever on the East Coast, she needs to throw in a ...
( Category: Business & Professional March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Mark Twain

* * * THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE * * * Thirty-five years ago I was out prospecting on the Stanislaus, tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn, and ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-25 | Author:Sibbet, David [Sibbet, David]

FOUR-BOX MODELS Four-box models that compare two sets of simple categories are useful to move a group to a more comprehensive, analytical understanding of a subject. The example to the ...
( Category: Human Resources & Personnel Management March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Michael Hyatt

130 THIRTY-FOUR Understand What’s Not Important Some time ago, in preparation for a meeting with one of my biggest clients, I visited his website. He wanted to extend the reach ...
( Category: E-Commerce March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

I liked that. It hit my emotional center. I decided to follow him, and he wound up in my Twitter stream, where my colleague Sam could see it. I’m not ...
( Category: Web Marketing March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

Extend the Conversation If you were on a date, and there was some serious chemistry, you wouldn’t let it end at the restaurant. You’d probably suggest continuing your conversation over ...
( Category: Web Marketing March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Page, Scott E. [Page, Scott E.]

THE DIVERSITY PREDICTION THEOREM Now that we’ve worked through an example, we’re ready to turn to the more general theorems that reveal the importance of diverse predictive models among the ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:William K. Black

Wright’s hopes for good publicity over his purported decision to support the $15 billion recap turned sour. THE MAY MASSACRE We could compete with the league’s professional lobbyists when the ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Daniel Stedman Jones [Jones, Daniel Stedman]

To avoid misunderstanding, let me emphasize that by using the term “natural” rate of unemployment, I do not mean to suggest that it is immutable and unchangeable. On the contrary, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

The Real World Back in the 1960s, the psychologist Stanley Milgram was horrified and inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who engineered the transport of Jews to Nazi death ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Tilar J. Mazzeo [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

FOURTEEN COCO AT WAR Back in Paris, Coco Chanel was getting ready to play a deep and dirty game of business and politics. Determinedly at war with her exiled partners, ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

PART FIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX The Google Phone Company and the Google TV Company 1 “They already hate us—what’s the downside?” You might say that the seeds of the Google ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

Unlike Knudsen, Donald Nelson was no industrial production man. He was a chemical engineer, with a degree from the University of Missouri—a handy degree when later he had to look ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )